Comments by "m g" (@07Flash11MRC) on "Would US Capitalism Exist Today Without Slavery?" video.

@nataschavisser573 "if free labour is too expensive or unavailable": No, it's only too expensive for the backs of the working class. For the owner class it is the best possible outcome. You know why? Slaves weren't forced to pay taxes, because they were not even considered slaves. Had they been considered (working) slaves, they would have needed to pay taxes, which is more expensive for the owner class and actually costs capital, not just food or clothing, which was exponentially cheap back then.
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"Cooperative Capitalism could have been a logical and natural alternative": What do you call the current system we are living under? Cooperation between who? And how is this cooperative capitalism supposed to work?
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@anneanne9009 "These enslaved people ... had decent lives and families. I just wish African American children knew their history before slavery.": What are you talking about? Are you excusing slavery by saying African Americans were better of under capitalist slavery than in Africa, where they were free?
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@anneanne9009 Oh, ok. Could it be that English isn't your mother tongue? They way you phrased your argument sounds similar to what people like Candace Owens and Jesse Lee Peterson usually say to excuse slavery.
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@anneanne9009 "Over 90% of slavery was in the carribean": This statement makes no sence, because slaves were brought to those countries from generally speaking all over the world with the majority being from the African continent.
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"Capitalism is a result of market democracy": Lmfao, is it April fools day 2022, yet? Market democracy, my butt-cheeks. When have average people ever been part of "market demoocracy" under capitalism? Answer: Never, because that would be socialsim. You know why? Because average people sell their labor to employers for an exchange of a little capital, called wage. They are not a business like the one that the elite and the owner class have. "equitable trade of goods and more equitable trade of labor": Those are socialis concepts as the require, by definition, an equal playing field for both the employer and the employee. However, under capitalism, which is by definition a hierarchy, there is no such thing. If employees refuse to work (meaning that they won't get paid), because they disagree with the pay or working conditions, they will inevitably perish, simply because everything from housing to food and water, costs money. You cannot even exist without being forced to pay some form of taxes. The only way of getting money is to become a wage sl@ve for any company, because only elitists have money, which they stole from their employees, who do all of the work. Not-working is not an option for the working class.
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"Adam Smith's (Father of Capitalism) arguments on Slavery were one of the arguments Abolitionists": Are we not wage slaves even today? Lmfao, people like Adam Smith made the situation WORSE for everyone who wasn't a cis-het, white, christian, conservative male.
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